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Artist: Albert King
Author: Booker T. Jones/William Bell
Label: Stax
Year: 1967
Borrowed lyrically from Cousin Joe Pleasant's Bad Luck Blues (ca 1947): "and if it wasn't for bad luck, I had no luck at all". Guitar line slightly copied from Wayne Bennett's in I've Been Wrong So Long by Bobby Bland ('60).
Covers:
Cream [in '67 for the BBC]
Booker T. & The MG's [coauthor]
Creedence Clearwater Revival [inspiration for their Tombstone Shadow]
Homer Simpson [lead guitar: B.B. King]
Paul Rodgers [and again in '14, recorded at the Royal Studio in Memphis]
Allman Brothers Band [with Floyd Miles]
Kenny Wayne Shepherd [with the Rebirth Brass Band and Keb' Mo']
Eric Clapton [with Steve Cropper, Booker T Jones, Albert Lee, Keb Mo' and Matt 'Guitar' Murphy]
Slash [with Paul Rodgers]
If you noticed blunt omissions, mis-interpretations or even out-and-out errors,
please let me know:
Arnold Rypens
Rozenlaan 65
B-2840 Reet (Rumst)